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Say you have a DHCP server in the LAN serving /24 network and one day you’re running out of IP addresses. You want to add additional /24 network that should be distributed in the same LAN. Ugly, but what to do.

The shared-network statement is used to inform the DHCP server that some IP subnets actually share the same physical network. Any subnets in a shared network should be declared within a shared-network statement. Parameters specified in the shared-network statement will be used when booting clients on those subnets unless parameters provided at the subnet or host level override them. If any subnet in a shared network has addresses available for dynamic allocation, those addresses are collected into a common pool for that shared network and assigned to clients as needed. There is no way to distinguish on which subnet of a shared network a client should boot.

Here is how you add additional network to be included into DHCP scope. Done on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) and ISC DHCP v3.1.2.

shared-network "officea01" {

option domain-name "officea01.domain.org";

option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

authoritative;

option routers 192.168.1.1;

allow unknown-clients;

range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.254;

}

subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

authoritative;

option routers 192.168.1.1;

allow unknown-clients;

range 192.168.2.10 192.168.2.254;

}

}

Instructions below are not necessary, however I decided to add an alias to the LAN interface so I can see 192.168.2.0/24 addresses in the ARP table.